Visa

“We rebuilt the entire experience for credit card, and we're the only direct connection to Visa and MasterCard directly to your mobile phone.”

“I actually think if payments become as low friction as I think they will in the future, you know, you could be doing dozens of payments as you walk down the street, or your phone as you're browsing websites, or like, we'll actually see an order of magnitude in…”

“I think there's nothing preventing digital currency from getting to Visa level. If today Ethereum can do somewhere between 10 and 25 transactions a second, that's really only two or three orders of magnitude away from Visa scale.”

“The problem that we've had over the last 10 years is that everyone's been building their own authentication and their own payment forms and their own registration forms, and they're doing it first party, which is a terrible experience for consumers, right? Rep…”

“Launched in 2018 with their 1.35 billion dollar debut fund, They've already set themselves as leaders in the world of growth funding, with three massive exits in less than two years, in the form of, check this out, Plaid sold to Visa for 5.3 billion dollars, A…”

“Within 45 days, we were able to be live with our partner bank, within 55 with Visa, within 65 internally, we were able to go and start Doing internal transactions.”

“Is I don't think it was fair. I don't think it was correct, but it doesn't, my opinion doesn't matter is, you know, the government is a decision maker at the end of the day.”

“We invested in CurrencyCloud. Mike Lavin, the founder, I think had 30 years experience in fintech. He was so well placed to understand actually what those buyers wanted and ultimately sold the business to Visa for a billion dollars.”

“When we did the sale to Visa that ultimately didn't go through, we raised a funding round afterwards. One of the most complex things to do in that funding round was I wanted to try to max the number of people that could participate in the secondary. We couldn'…”

“And ended up making what I think was a 51 49 call to say, like, it's the right answer to sell the business. For a variety of reasons at the time. A year later, we had that same meeting, same group of people sitting in my living room, having the same, same styl…”

“We hosted a dinner for the CEO of Visa, and I sat Zach at Plaid right next to Alec Kelly at Visa.”

“I think we had to lay off 70% of the company, and then we eventually turned it around and sold it to Visa”